A Mark Slouka Crossing When we hear the title "Crossing" it will give us a feeling of someone who is still crossing something. This is due to the ing-form because this form will always give us a feeling of an uncompleted or unfinished action. The short story "Crossing" is by Mark Slouka who is an American novelist and critic. A relationship between a father and a son is the starting point of the story but it has many other angles too. We live in a post-modern society which means we
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Flinging open her eyes‚ Aradia realised she’d returned from the Ganzfeld. The shock that ran down her spine involuntary made her back snap into a straightened position. She heard the clattering of dishes and the familiar smell of bleach. Surveying her cell with shifty eyes‚ she discovered the plump nurse mopping the floor. Turning her head away in disgust‚ Aradia diverted her face to the wall‚ hurt by the betrayal. The tears welled up in the corner of her eyes. She thrust her head back towards the
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“Connie?” He asked‚ voice soft. He took a step towards her‚ hands outstretched‚ but was not expecting her to move back. Her body was stiff‚ fraught with tension‚ the circles under her eyes highlighting her exhaustion. “Connie‚ it’s okay‚ I’m here.” “It’s not okay!” The words twisted from her lips‚ simultaneously choked and angry. There was a storm of emotions brewing within her. Anger. Despair. Joy. Relief. Betrayal. “It’s not okay‚ Steven! Do you even realize what you did?” She couldn’t continue
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Pulp Fiction Examples of argumentation and debate can be found in many places besides courtrooms and news channels. This paper will discuss a scene from the movie Pulp Fiction where one character‚ Vincent Vega‚ uses the Toulmin system to make an argument against another character‚ Jules Winnfield. First‚ I will give a brief overview of the movie‚ then analyze the aforementioned scene‚ detailing what parts of the dialogue are claims‚ evidence‚ warrants‚ backing and qualifiers. Pulp Fiction is a
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Enemy mine Fiction or Reality? Description Enemy mine is an excellent movie of scientific fiction made in 1985 in which two involved warriors in a wild future war between the Earth and the Dracon planet‚ where in a middle of a spaceship fight they are forced to land in a desolate and inhospitable planet. The principle‚ the human being (Dennis Quaid) and its enemy‚ a foreign reptile (Louis Gosset‚ Jr) are determined to mutual destruction
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of science fiction that sets it apart of almost all other genres is its ability to influence the direction of humankind. By stimulating a reader’s thoughts of the possibility of different futures‚ not only does science fiction serve as a popular source of entertainment‚ but it also encourages one to analyze the possible prospective effects of the generation’s powerholders’ and their decisions. As a science fiction writer himself‚ Isaac Asimov once said‚ “Intelligent science fiction writers attempt
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Murder Will Out Crime Fiction - Literary Analysis “It is said that there is a potencial murderer in all of us‚ that if the pressures are great enough anybody can be driven to the ultimate act of violence”. (Crime Never Pays‚ OXFORD BOOKWORMS COLLECTION) This statement is reflected on most of the crime fiction stories. This genre of fiction deals with crimes‚ their detection‚ criminals and their motives. It has several sub-genders in which different well known writers concentrate on. Each writer
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girl‚ Clarisse‚ he must hide and run from a government that hunts him down “So it was the hand that started it all . . . His hands had been infected‚ and soon it would be his arms . . . His hands were ravenous”(42).. They are both works of dystopian fiction where controls are used to keep their inhabitants ignorant and “civilized”. However when it comes to contrasting the types of controls used‚ we can say “Minority Report” uses more technology to limit civilian’s everyday life by inserting machines
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The notion of the atom all stared about 450 BC when a Greek scholar starting think when can something break on more‚ when are the pieces at their smallest‚ this mans name was Leucippus. Leucippus also had pupil who also thought the same way as Leucippus‚ his name was Democritus. They developed there ideas and when Democritus died his theory summed up briefly was that everything in the world was made of tiny pieced that could not be broken up any more. That how the word atom was derived from the Greek
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